Past projects
Examining the sustainability of renewable and traditional energy resource projects through assessing their social and environmental impacts.
How cultures understand relations among salt water and terra firma in the course of anthropogenic climate change.
Exploring nature-based solutions to urban climate change adaptation through an environmental justice lens.
Exploring interpretations of resilience within Australia’s finance and governance sectors.
Exposing the systematic weaponisation of climates as forms of control and punishment.
How has the climate emergency been militarised, both in its response and in the discourse we use to address it?
Investigating how we create our digital lives and whether we really understand the environmental impact of the digital world.
Exploring how “ordinary people” are enlisted into pro-environmental behaviour, and the role of institutions in this process.
The story of sea-dumped chemical weapons in Australia and their unknown afterlives
Developing new interdisciplinary perspectives on militarisms that are part of our everyday environmental, cultural and social worlds.
Plunging into the harbour to uncover the cultural history of spaces, animals, plants and peoples immersed beneath its waves.
Curating Reading Environments, a new series of readings, structured discussions and field trips for University.
Focusing on urban infrastructures that were designed to eliminate waste in the name of modernity and progress, but which are now in crisis.
Unravelling the evolution of the reef during the last interglacial period and the growth that occurred during the Holocene.
Designing theatrical ways to communicate academic research on climate adaptation and contribute to wider debates about the role of the arts.
Bringing together radically diverse models and practices of fishing, from sea to table, laboratory to policy, farm to food.
Exploring the disparity between consumers’ stated concerns for animal welfare and their purchasing decisions
Engaging residents, food communities and public sector stakeholders to develop food planning policies to secure Sydney’s food future.
What food-related urban planning policy actions are required to promote food justice?
Working with communities to establish how past shock events impacted Sydney residents and their ability to cope.
Shedding light on a more effective means of engaging fashion with the environmental and social goals of sustainability.
Exploring the recent development of new sustainable practices relating to food, energy, transport and a range of other basic needs.
Examining the role of museums in helping to make sense of Australia’s experiences during a time of rapid planetary change.
Derived from Iain McCalman’s prize-winning book, The Reef: A Passionate History, this project highlights the importance of this ecosystem.
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